Saturday marks Qingming Jie, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families traditionally pay respects to the dead. Yet in China’s crowded cities, space for graves is at a premium, and some municipalities are offering incentives for burials at sea. Yet the idea has yet to catch on in a country where human burial is an important tradition. Bruce Einhorn at Bloomberg/Businessweek reports:
According to the country’s official English-language newspaper, local governments